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New Milky Way map reveals a complicated outer galaxy
Aug 29 2008, Maggie

The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).

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This undated hand out artist rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the latest view of the Milky Way’s structure. Our Milky Way galaxy may not be the snack-sized collection of stars astronomers have long thought it...

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